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Asked: 2026-05-26T09:00:09+00:00

I’m trying to embed several flash files (swf) into different html pages. these flash

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I’m trying to embed several flash files (swf) into different html pages.
these flash files vary in size between 6 and 20 MB.

I want these files to start playing immediately once the page is loaded.
I’m aware that the file sizes aren’t really small and so they will require some time to load.
What I would like to know now is if flash will automatically stream these files from the server and will start playing them or if it has to download these files before it can play them?

I’ve only got a local dev environment atm so can’t really test the behaviour on live.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A flash file is a compiled object. It cant play everything straight away or “stream” unless told to do so.

    Check out this article with regards to setting up a “pre-loader”

    http://www.jacorre.com/tutorials/simple-flash-preloader/

    This works by only progressing past the first keyframe when everything has loaded.

    Another idea, which could perhapds improove loading, would be to split your big flash file, into smaller ones, and add a preloader for each one… However of course if you’re dealing with lots of files, this might be quite a labourius task Im afraid…

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